Travel Literature

New travel writing as well as reprints of old travel writing classics

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A Romantic in SpainTheophile GautierIn May 1840, Théophile Gautier, the enfant terrible of the French Romantic movement, set off by coach from Paris for a journey to Spain. Hired by the journal La Presse to send back regular installments of his travelogue, Gautier recorded his e...$15.00

Alaskan Lonely Hearts ClubAnd Other Unlikely Travel TalesPaul Gogarty; foreword by Nicholas CraneVIGNETTES OF TRAVEL WRITING FROM AROUND THE GLOBE IN TWENTY SIX A – Z STORIES, PEOPLED WITH ECCENTRIC CHARACTERS

In Alaskan Lonely Hearts Club acclaimed travel writer Paul Gogarty shares his life on the road in 26 A-Z stories rec...$15.00

Alice in WaterlandLewis Carroll and the River Thames in OxfordMark J. Davies“A splendid book—fully informative and balanced about Dodgson’s life and (Alice-related) preoccupations, and marvellously detailed when it comes to the river and Oxford. A really important addition to the literature of Lewis Car...$16.95

America's Back PorchDaniel JeffreysIn Murray, Kentucky, they have more teenage vampires than fried chicken. In Capshaw, Alabama, the prison guards relax after work by dancing with grizzly bears. While in Los Angeles, a Dalmatian puppy called Cotton is about to have his first face lift...$15.00

"Go to the Aran Islands. Live there as if you were one of the people themselves, express a life that has never found expression." J.M. Synge did exactly as W.B. Yeats suggested and, revisiting these harsh yet beautiful specks of land off...$15.00

By the Ionian SeaNotes of a Ramble in Southern ItalyGeorge Robert Gissing; Introduction and notes by Pierre Coustillas"The names of Greece and Italy draw me as no others; they make me young again. The world of the Greeks and Romans is my land of romance."

In 1897 the Victorian novelist George Gissing undertook a brief but eventful journ...$15.00

Call of the Wildedited by Roly SmithEngland, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland have a variety of wild landscapes unrivalled anywhere in the world, ranging from remote coastal islands to special places in Sussex and Suffolk, from unknown hills to famous mountains, from standing stones to for...$19.95

Coming Down the SeineRobert Gibbings“Four hundred miles from source to mouth—just twice the length of the Thames. There was scarcely a yard of it that I hadn’t touched, from its first cress-bordered trickle to the broad highways where cyclopean buttresses of chalk hol...$15.00

Dancing In the No-Fly ZoneA Woman’s Journey Through IraqHadani DitmarsHere is a unique perspective on Iraq, before and after the recent war.

When Hadani Ditmars first went to Iraq in 1997 for the New York Times, she was shocked at what she saw. Six years of the worst sanctions ever inflicte...$16.95

Dickens on FranceFiction, Journalism and Traveledited by John Edmondson“Charles Dickens, Français naturalisé, et Citoyen de Paris.” This is how Dickens signed a letter from France to his friend John Forster in 1847. Behind the joke lay a fascination for French life and culture and a sense of af...$20.00

Dreams of ElsewhereSelected Travel Writings of Robert Louis Stevensonedited by June Skinner SawyersBest known for his fiction writing, Robert Louis Stevenson was also an essayist, journalist, poet, and travel writer. His first major work was An Inland Voyage, an account of his journey by canoe from Antwerp to northern France. The companio...$16.95

Howard Carter and the Discovery of the Tomb of TutankhamunH. V. F. WinstoneTold with distinction and graphic tension, here is the life story of Howard Carter, most famous of archaeologists, and the incredible story of the discovery of those "wonderful things" and the splendor of the most memorial of all royal lege...$20.00

Islands GaloreA Scottish Island FactbookJim DowScotland’s islands are a treasure trove of beauty, heritage, peace, solitude—and surprises. They are, by their very nature, off the beaten track and those who visit them selfishly want them to stay that way. But there are enough to go aro...$15.00

Journey to MauritiusBernardin de Saint-Pierre; translated by Jason WilsonPaul et Virginie (1787), an adolescent love story set in an exotic Indian Ocean island, was one of the literary sensations of the age. Telling of a passion both chaste and doomed, the novel combined fashionable sentimentality with an evocati...$15.00

Joy UnconfinedLord Byron’s Grand Tour Re-TouredIan StrathcarronLord Byron completed his Grand Tour of the Mediterranean between 1809 and 1811, leaving England at the age of twenty-one as an undiscovered soul and returning as "Byron," with all that implies: the brand, the baggage and the brio.

With t...$23.95

Kingdoms of ExperienceEverest, the Unclimbed RidgeAndrew GreigThe last attempt by a Chris Bonington team to conquer Everest by the unclimbed north-east ridge had ended in failure and the tragic death of two great climbers. This extraordinary book chronicles not only the assault on the peak, but also the complex...$15.00

Long Rider to Rome1400 Miles by Pilgrim Horse from CanterburyMefo Phillips; foreword by Robin Hanbury-Tenison

AN AMAZING STORY OF A PILGRIMAGE FROM CANTERBURY TO ROME ON HORSEBACK—FROM THE HEIGHTS OF THE ALPS TO THE VALLEY OF THE PO RIVER

Still hooked on adventure after their long pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, a few years later Mefo...$20.00

MaltaA Traveller's Anthologyedited by Deborah ManleyFew countries are as marked by their history as the Maltese islands of Malta and Gozo. At least five centuries before St. Paul was shipwrecked on Malta’s northern shore on his way to Rome and martyrdom, what are perhaps the oldest stone buildin...$15.00

Meet you in Atlantic CityTravels in Springsteen's New JerseyJames PettiferAN INSIGHTFUL CULTURAL HISTORY THAT WILL APPEAL TO FANS OF ROCK MUSIC AND NEW JERSEY

Bruce Springsteen—“The Boss”—has towered over the rock world since he shot to international fame with “Born to Run” and other c...$20.00

Midnight TalesA Woman’s Journey Through the Middle EastRosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi; translated by Monique Arav"In actual fact, the only thing that matters in life is love, yet the inquisitive mind must be fed a few facts... Look at Baghdad!" commands Rosina-Fawzia al-Rawi’s lively and imperious aunt Fatima, one of the characters in this delig...$15.00